Coming up with five adjectives to describe your character barely scratches the surface. In order to make your character figuratively come alive, you'll need to know them better than they know themselves. The exercises in this book will make you think about your characters in ways you never have before.

Welcome to the Wattpad Writing Great Fiction introduction! You can browse through the chapters and use them as a reference when needed, or you can treat this like a class in writing fiction. There are assignments you can do, but don't worry, there aren't any due dates. There are lectures, but you don't have to take notes and there are no tests. But, if you work through it, if you do the assignments and think about how the lessons can apply to your writing, if you really push yourself, we guarantee that your writing will improve. With just a little bit of effort, you will feel more confident and your readers will see it in your work. You'll learn more about how to structure your stories, how to write great sentences that pull readers in and how to write characters that people will relate to and want to follow. A note on how this book is organized: The first eight chapters are devoted to the fundamentals you need to know to be able to craft stories that will draw readers in. The next seven chapters focus on different ways of planning and crafting your story, and after that we go over a variety of things including style and common story problems. So, jump in with us! Explore the craft of writing, work on the homework, try some of our contests and meet other writers who want to push themselves! We all look forward to reading your work and helping you become the writer you want to be. -The Ambassadors on the Improve Your Writing team. This instructional book is primarily written by Bruce Elgin, Wattpad Ambassador and 2014 Watty Winner. He has his Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing and has taught writing for years. Other experienced writers will help cover a wide range of topics to help give you the best instruction possible.

Clichés are fantastic. Clichés are terrible. Clichés are almost impossible to escape. So let's learn what they are, and how to write them better.

A short list of tips for avoiding clichés in stories. Hope this helps!

Here is just my list of tips of how to avoid creating/writing a Mary-Sue character. Take them as you wish. Greatest Achievements: #1 in non-fiction!!!

This is about how to improve your OC so that it's not too Mary Sue/Gary Stu. It also looks into tropes and cliches, overall helping with storytelling. OC reviews are also welcome for those that want their OCs to be checked. (OC REVIEWS ARE CLOSED) Note: Some chapters are very outdated!! I only just started updating some parts of them but I'll try to edit when I can. (Edited up to tip #7) Cover art by 薯子Imoko (ID: 1950701) on Pixiv Render by Saelyaz on DeviantArt Highest Ranking: #2 in Mary Sue 30/9/18 and #1 in advice 23/8/21

This is THE book for fellow writers, students, people preparing for the SAT and vocabulary learners, who wish to expand their vocabulary range. It contains short stories, mnemonics, funny ways to memorise the words and MORE! :)